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Instana

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Windows .Net service getting discovered without adding package Instana.Tracing.Core.Rewriter.Windows

Windows .Net service should auto discovered in Instana once instana agent is installed in the host without any code instrumentation or without adding Nuget package this will help us to avoid new release.
over 2 years ago in Instana / .NET 1 Not under consideration

Trigger alert from offline event only if there was no restart after a configurable amount of time

Currently, if I create an alert based on an offline event, the alert will immediately be triggered when the entity goes offline. Often an entity is only restarted, so if an alert is generated that would be a false alert. Instead it should be possi...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 1 Planned for future release

Support MongoDB Atlas properly

Please support MongoDB Atlas properly, so multiple clusters can be setup sepeartely.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

instana saas hosted agent to support aws emr serverless plarform

need to add aws emr serveress platform. it is not supprted based on following link https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-installing-configuring-serverless
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release

Single Unified Dashboard and Management for Multiple customers

for MSP like us, it is important to have a single dashboard and management pane of Instana for ease of administration, unlike today where each customer has a different URL and support engineers end up logging into different URL for supporting client.
10 months ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications / User Interface 2 Future consideration

Monitoring of Custom Application Error Codes by Instana

The customer uses Instana for Unified Payment Interface application monitoring. They want to monitor error codes generated by UPI application by Instana.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Functionality already exists

Support for platforms such as Docker and Azure to deploy a PoP for synthetic monitoring

We are users of the Instana APM solution and have been trying out the Synthetic Monitoring feature to help ensure the performance and availability of our applications. However, we have found that the current implementation of this feature only sup...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Not under consideration

negate condition in custom event definition or negate matching operator

In custom event definition it will be good to have negate condition (besides AND) or to have negate Matching Operator for certain metrics. ITM has a NE operator for this purpose.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Change the Instana Logo on the Homepage and Login Page

Our customer would like to replace the IBM Instana logo on the homepage and login page with their own logo.
10 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Not under consideration

Let the license expiration notice be seen only by admins

Each year, as the license renewing period approaches, our users are worried about the notice "Licence expires in xx days". We would like this reminder to be seen only by the Instana administrators, to avoid unnecessary worries on the users' side.
10 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 2 Needs more information